1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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1 Thessalonians 2:2
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
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1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Numbers 11:12
Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’
Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
2 Corinthians 6:13
Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
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1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Isaiah 40:1
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
John 11:19
Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
Colossians 4:8
I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Acts 20:2
When he had gone through those parts and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
Titus 2:15
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Hebrews 13:22
But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
Titus 2:6
Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
Titus 2:9
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
1 Peter 5:12
Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
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1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
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Acts 20:20
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Galatians 5:3
Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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1 Timothy 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
Numbers 27:19
Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.
Deuteronomy 31:14
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
1 Timothy 5:7
Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1 Timothy 6:13
I command you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
2 Timothy 4:1
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
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Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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Hebrews 12:5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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